Parking restrictions on Saltburn’s Marine Parade to begin in June as cost revealed

Restrictions on how long visitors can park for free on Saltburn’s Marine Parade are set to come into force in June with the cost of their implementation also being revealed.

The changes were announced last August by Redcar and Cleveland Council in response to continued complaints from some residents about vehicles – particularly motorhomes – sometimes parking for days on end.

From June vehicles will be restricted to parking in existing marked parking bays on the north side of the road and only for four hours on Monday to Saturday between 9am and 5pm, with no return for four hours immediately after.

The new measures were previously declared a compromise by local MP Anna Turley after a climbdown saw plans for an overnight parking ban scrapped in 2024 despite support for such a move from local councillors concerned about noise, litter and chemical waste disposal associated with visitors sleeping in motorhome-type vehicles.

They will mean the introduction of parking ticket machines, which the council said was to manage the four hour restriction as in other free limited waiting areas such as The Stray, between Redcar and Marske.

The procurement of these cost £23,571, while signing and lining materials – with an extension of double yellow lines on the narrow part of the seafront thoroughfare being another element to the changes – will cost a further £2,000.

The council was required to advertise a traffic regulation order last year, which was approved in February – the bill for which was £2,740.

Resident Gemma Booth, of the group Saltburn Against Promenade Changes, said the costs came at a time when “we are continually informed that financial resources are already stretched”.

She also said there was concern parking charges could be introduced on Marine Parade – something the council said it had no plans to do.

In 2021 the previous council administration proposed visitors should pay to park on Marine Parade, although again this was later dropped.

Ms Booth claimed the machines would restrict pavement access for the likes of wheelchair users and anyone with a pushchair.

She also said the council had not completed a displacement study or carried out any assessment of the potential impact of the changes.

Councillor Carl Quartermain, the cabinet member for highways and transport, said the new measures would be reviewed following this year’s summer season.

He said: “This will allow us to review real life usage; behaviour change and compile comment and correspondence received from members of the public to then determine what [further] changes, if any, are required.”

Coun Quartermain said the ticket machines would effectively and efficiently manage the enforcement of the restrictions and could also be repurposed elsewhere if required.

Ms Booth claimed the price of paid-for-parking elsewhere in the town was “exorbitant”, singling out the Pier and Cat Nab parks on the Lower Foreshore.

But Coun Quartermain pointed out that parking charges across the borough had been frozen in 2026/27, adding: “Saltburn has a varied offer of parking provision in the town, ranging from free unrestricted parking to pay and display.”

He previously described how the number of vehicles parking overnight on Marine Parade had grown so large it was becoming increasingly unsafe and unsustainable.

Overnight provision for motorhomes is available at Cat Nab, while the council has also been sounding out landowners in other parts of the borough who may have suitable provision for overnight parking.